Tracking LLM Token Consumption Trends and AI Vendor Competitive Landscape [Zhongtai Media & Internet]

English summary

As of 2026/7/29, OpenRouter data show that weekly Token call volume has grown 821% from the beginning of the year. The top 8 models are all open-source, with 7 domestic (Chinese) models. Moonshot AI officially open-sourced the Kimi K3 model weights and technical report on July 27, topping Hugging Face's trending chart within half an hour. Kimi K3 adopts a custom license agreement, allowing free commercial use and distribution, but MaaS providers with annual revenue exceeding $20 million are required to sign a separate commercial licensing agreement (internal enterprise use or via official channels is exempt). Multiple Silicon Valley institutions jointly support open weights, while Anthropic holds reservations and strengthens security lobbying.…